These Sporting Lies: Olympic Videogame Events

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Occasionally, certain corners of the internet and media defiantly make their case for pro-graming being included as an Olympic sport. I call those people narrow-minded in the extreme – of course gaming should be part of the greatest sports show on Earth, but restricting it to that tiny, scary niche would be a terrible mistake. There are far more important aspects of gaming that deserve their own Olympic classes. Here are just a few, and I hope you’ll suggest some more.

I Salute you dear commenter, Touché! Such a Riposte did almost Pommel me into submission, and left me feeling Feint. Since endurance punning is not my Forte I feel I must Pass on this Engagement, but I hope you will be En-Garde for any fencing puns in Absence. :)

The best thing about the missiles is now all we get is a cardboard box containing pamphlets about the armed forces with a note saying “They are here now, nothing you can do, please take a pamphlet for more information.”

– Quickest to vomit due to lack of FOV controls
– For console players: least stupid defense of a controller’s superiority for playing FPS’s
– For PC players: least stupid defense of a keyboard’s superiority for playing platformers
– Boycott endurance challenge (current world record is almost an entire hour before breaking down and finding a flimsy justification for buying the game anyway
– Synchronized entitlement

I forget my best forward distance. But the most I ever got backwards was -10. I figured … if I kept going … maybe I’d find a way to stabilize and then go forwards again … so I kept barely keeping the poor man from falling backwards and eventually DID manage to move forwards for about a step or two only to fall over anyway.

Great post. I was yesterday talking with a friend of how silly is that golf is going to be an Olympic Sport starting in 2016. Even if i love computer gaming very much, this post explains better than i ever will that asking for it to be an Olympic sport is just downright insane.